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QAnon picked your website.
but they're like, "Wow. This guy's getting a lot of pizza."
and it's the website that Q calls home.
and I immediately started following on 4chan.
Yeah, that's my website.
but that doesn't mean that QAnon itself is wrong or fake."
looking at about two and a half million views a month.
a mega-conspiracy theory
Well, I think Q is President Trump.
I started researching
(crowd yelling)
There was a lot of research.
my husband started reading Q posts,
I'm gonna just be honest, here.
that it only takes a five-minute YouTube video
In 2018, I reached out to him over Twitter.
Filmmaker: A story of how a website changed the world.
Seriously. "Christians" is in their top ten boards.
'Cause, you know, God's first,
We don't believe Q is just one specific person.
Filmmaker: This is how followers see Q,
into proof Q exists.
interpreted by followers,
Watkins: Correct. Because every other website banned him.
Sommer: Q moves from 4chan to 8chan
"Some creepy stuff in here, guys.
I have the Q, if you want to see it.
or as the users call them-- and keep everybody engaged.
People, I think there's just gonna be this big bust
I got five emails this morning.
Filmmaker: Tell me a little bit about the board change that happened.
and everything resonated with me,
but it's arguable that Q would have never broken into the mainstream
♪ And the White Knight is talking backwards ♪
it was where their whole, like, persona is just, like,
and they've been working together all along.
They move to a board that is then, uh, controlled
So, the reach is there.
That password would get cryptographically scrambled,
sometimes they'll even think it's me.
Sommer: Well, when you, when you start looking into it,
Furber: Being a baker is a terrible job.
Q left, and went to this board that I had created.
So I offered to pick Joy up at the airport and bring her over.
that Q was no longer real.
-Filmmaker: To you name it. -Corsi: There's no evidence
He thought it was still the same Q continuing.
I don't even know what I was saying now.
So as soon as a Q post is up,
because Corsi was threatening his revenue stream.
were on the brink of being cured.
8chan is one of many imageboard websites.
"This is not a game," "Godfather III,"
That's all I felt.
Is there 8-- Isn't there--
would then select the best research
when a man from North Carolina comes up and fires some shots.
To connect whatever dots they may find,
Yo, Q don't reach out to anybody.
that allowed people to just speak their mind
in order to understand the underlying motives,
That people, you know, after we got
And so, someone who's going through it,
a largely forgotten '90s flick
Sometimes 10 days would go by without a single message.
from this individual who is obviously
Filmmaker: From the John Kerry Swift Boat campaign of 2004,
We went in front of the VIP line.
everybody to come together.
and want to see me make more.
and live-streamed himself, sort of like,
Things we think we know about this guy,
Filmmaker: Like most anons,
And she was like, "Wow, so he has moved."
and so they won't actually come out
uh, that, uh, Trump has used for a long time.
I was making fun of people
I mean, I certainly never had any interaction with Codemonkey.
and their global partners
who shares cryptic messages through an online forum